Honors and Awards Received in 2006-2007

Jennifer Ailshire and Michael Bader received a collaborative grant of $32,650 from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholars Program, Small Grant Program.

Matt Andrews had a publication accepted: Matthew M. Andrews & Jeffrey Chun. (2007). "(Mis)Educating about 'Mixed Race': Discourse on Multiraciality and the Prospects of Higher Education Policy." Asian American Policy Review, Vol. 16, forthcoming.

Avi Astor received an SSRC Dissertation Proposal Development Grant and a Center for European Studies Summer Grant.

Amy Cooter received a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.

Natalie Cotton was recently given a Shapiro/Malik award by Rackham.

David Dobbie received a National Science Foundation dissertation grant and was accepted to Rackham's Preparing Future Faculty program.

Eric Eide was awarded a fellowship from the American Institute of Indian Studies, which provides funding for eleven months of field work in India.

Maria Farkas received a National Science Foundation graduate research fellowship in April 2006.

Melissa Forbes received a Graham Environmental Sustainability Institute (GESI) Graduate Fellowship, a two year full fellowship for individuals conducting interdisciplinary work on issues related to environmental sustainability.

Alice Gates was awarded the Mark Chesler Student Research Award for her scholarly paper entitled, “Increasing access to healthy foods through participatory policy change: Examples, lessons, and opportunities.”

Alex Gerber was awarded a Summer Research Fellowships from CREES and CES, and a Fulbright IIE to Poland.

Lloyd Grieger received a Rackham Graduate Student Research Grant; a Global Health Research Training Fellowship; a South Africa Initiatives Office Research Fellowship; a Poverty Center Small Research Grant Award 2006-2007.

Amy Hammock received the CEW Mary Malcomson Raphael Fellowship through CEW for 2007-2008.

Debra Hevenstone received 1) an IGERT/IDEAS fellowship for academic years 2006-2008 ($30,000 per year), 2) a Rackham Debt Management Award for students with at least 2 years prior to entering graduate school, and pursuing public interest careers ($10,000 one time stipend), 3) a Rackham Research Grant.

Pilar Horner and Jeannie Thrall received a $6000 award from Rackham's Interdisciplinary Workshop to run a writing group: "Interdisciplinary Workshop for Qualitative Researchers in the Social Sciences"

Kristen Hopewell received a Nonprofit and Public Management Center Doctoral Research Award, a Rackham Graduate Student Research Grant, and a Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics Graduate Student Prize.

Sarah Jirek Sarah Jirek received the 2007-2008 Henry Meyer Award for her paper “Soul Pain: The Hidden Toll of Working with Survivors of Physical and Sexual Violence.”

Tiffany Joseph received 1) a Summer FLAS for Brazilian Portuguese Language Study, 2) a Sociologists without Borders Brazil Summer Fellowship, 3) a Fulbright dissertation fellowship for her dissertation research on Brazilian immigrants to the U. S. who return to Brazil and their changing social definition of race.

Maria Johnson received the University of Michigan Poverty Research Grant offered by the National Poverty Center.

Susan Lee-Rife received the Rackham Debt Management Award and a grant to attend the Fifth African Population Conference, Arusha, Tanzania, William & Flora Hewlett Foundation.

Camilo Leslie received the National Science Foundation graduate research fellowship and the Ford Predoctoral fellowship in 2005-2006.

Katherine Luke received 1)The Network's Biennial Margaret J. Barr Student Research Award for research on collegiate alcohol, other drug, and violence prevention, Higher Education Center, U.S Department of Education 2)Community of Scholars Fellowship from the Institute for Research on Women and Gender 3) a Dissertation Research Grant from the Department of Sociology, and 4) the 2006 Henry J. Meyer Award for outstanding paper in Social Work and Social Science, University of Michigan.

Zakiya Luna received a Doctoral Research Award from the Nonprofit and Public Management Center. The Nonprofit and Public Management Center is a collaboration among the University of Michigan's School of Social Work, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, and Stephen M. Ross School of Business.

Christina Mendoza received the 2007-2008 UC Davis Chicana/Latina Research Center Dissertation Fellowship.

Colter Mitchell received: The Marshall Weinberg Summer Research Fellowship, grant from the Eva L. Mueller New Directions in Economics and Demography Fund, and a Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship. He also received his Masters in Statistics from UM.

Steph Osbakken received an honorable mention in the NSF fellowship competition.

Carla Pfeffer received an IRWG Graduate Research Fellowship Award and an Honorable Mention for the Dorothy McGuigan Best Graduate Essay on Women & Gender in 2006. In 2007, she received a Sociology Department Dissertation Grant, an IRWG Community of Scholars Fellowship, and was nominated by the Women's Studies Program for the Mary Malcomson Raphael Fellowship.

Besnik Pula received an ACLS Dissertation Writing Fellowship in Southeast European Studies for 2007-08.

Hiro Saito received a 2007-2008 Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship and Best Graduate Student Paper Awards from the ASA Sections on Culture and Political Sociology for "Reiterated Commemoration: Hiroshima as National Trauma." Sociological Theory 24(4):353-376.

Hiroe Saruya received the Rackham International Research Award (2006-7) and was invited to the SSRC Japan Studies Dissertation Workshop (Feb. 2007).

Kristin Scherrer received an IRWG summer fellowship, the Harold and Vivian Shapiro Award (from Social Work), and will be a National Institute of Aging Fellow beginning in June 2007.

Kristin Scherrer was awarded a Hartford Foundation Pre-dissertation Award and a Harold and Vivian Shapiro/John Malik Award from Rackham.

Ethan Schoolman received an honorable mention in the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.

Kristin Seefeldt’s article “Housing Instability among Current and Former Welfare Recipients” (Robin Phinney, Sheldon Danziger, Harold Pollack, and Kristin S. Seefeldt, published May 2007 in the American Journal of Public Health) was named by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation as one of the 10 articles published in 2007 that had impact in the policy arena, helped shape the foundation’s thinking and work, or stood out in other ways. Kristin was elected to the Policy Council (the board of directors) of the Association of Public Policy and Management (APPAM), and she is currently serving as the Co-Principal Investigator on the grant renewing the National Poverty Center at the University of Michigan; $1.9 million from the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (10/07 – 9/10).

Amanda Toler will be an Assistant Professor at the School of Social Work at Michigan State University next year.

Jennifer Torres received honorable mention on her application for an NSF fellowship.

Lai Sze Tso received a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Award for work in China from July 1, 2007 to December 31, 2008, and the NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant for March 2007-Feb 2007.

Lynn Verduzco-Baker received an honorable mention in the NSF fellowship competition.

Nathalie Williams received the ISR Innovation in Social Research Award for the 2007-2008 academic year and a poster award for "Migration and Political Conflict: A Case Study of the Maoist Insurrection in Nepal" presented at the annual meetings of the Population Association of America in April 2007.